PANJIM: The Mapusa Special Court has asked the Colvale Central Jail authorities to produce before it on May 16, two main accused arrested in a money laundering case and to issue summons to other accused.
During the hearing of the chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Court was informed that the main accused Mohammed Suhail of a-Karnataka was untraceable while, the other two accused Rajkumar Maithi of Miramar and Vikrant Shetty of Gogol-Margao, have been lodged in the Colvale Central Jail.
Accordingly, the District Judge-1 and Additional Sessions Judge Sharmila Patil, issued a letter to the jailor asking him to produce both the accused in the Court at 10 am on Thursday, May 16, while it also issued summons to 33 other accused. Most of the accused were arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Goa Police, which was constituted to probe land grabbing cases reported in the State in 2022.
Adv Siddharth Samant, representing the ED, said that the Special Court has taken cognisance of the chargesheet filed against 36 persons, in money laundering case linked to the land grabbing cases in the State.
In April this year, the Panjim zonal office of Enforcement Directorate had filed a chargesheet against 36 persons in money laundering case linked to the land grabbing cases in the State, under Section 3 of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.
The over 4,750 pages chargesheet includes statements of complainants and 36 witnesses.
The ED had sought prosecution of these accused under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and had also informed the Court that it might file supplementary chargesheet in the future.
